MESSENGER Observations of Extreme Loading and Unloading of Mercury's Magnetic Tail

During MESSENGER's third flyby of Mercury, the magnetic field in the planet's magnetotail increased by factors of 2 to 3.5 over intervals of 2 to 3 min. Magnetospheric substorms at Earth are powered by similar tail loading, but the amplitude is approx.10 times less and typical durations ar...

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Hauptverfasser:	Slavin, James A., Anderson, Brian J., Baker, Daniel N., Benna, Mehdi, Boardsen, Scott A., Gloeckler, George, Gold, Robert E., Ho, George C., Korth, Haje, Krimigis, Stamatios M., McNutt, Ralph L., Jr, Nittler, Larry R., Raines, Jim M., Sarantos, Menelaos, Schriver, David, Solomon, Sean C., Starr, Richard D., Travnicek, Pavel M., Zurbuchen, Thomas H.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Astronomy
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